Sunday, June 24, 2007

Can fat Bartolo complete the sweep?

Bartolo Colon has been awful recently this year, but I fail to see how that will matter in a week that both Jeff Weaver and Felix Hernandez have gotten untracked against our terrible offense. Since our win in the first game of the Seattle series, we've scored five runs in four games. That won't win you a lot of baseball games and in fact, it didn't win us any at all over the past four days. That's about par for the course for Tom Gorzelanny, who's used to pitching will and watching the bullpen blow leads or the offense not score enough. Still, he's been worked into the ground recently and I'm expecting him to be pulled out of a game early with "elbow stiffness" any day now. Whatever the case, today closes out the yearly nightmare that is interleague play for the Pirates. A win and we're 6-9, a loss and we're 5-10. Sadly, either outcome is better than any of us expected.